The Halton Hills Speech Centre, an award winning centre, is a private Speech-Language Pathology centre located in Georgetown, Ontario. Owner and Speech-Language Pathologist Karen MacKenzie-Stepner has more than 25 years of clinical experience and brings her knowledge as well as experience with provincial and national issues to her work. Together with the team of Registered Speech-Language Pathologists and Communicative Disorder Assistants, the Centre is able to provide comprehensive services.
The Halton Hills Speech Centre provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic services for all ages.

This includes:

• Children with developmental delays of language and/or speech;
• Children who experience language based learning problems affecting academic progress;
• Children with difficulties with speech sound production;
• Children who experience voice problems such as hoarseness or hypernasality;
• Children with fluency (stuttering) difficulties;
• Adults with neurological impairments following stroke, surgery or trauma;
• Adults with degenerative neurological disease;
• Adults with fluency (stuttering) difficulties;
• Adults who experience voice problems;
• Adults with speech sound production difficulties;
• Adults with swallowing or feeding disorders.

Services are provided on a fee-for-service basis as well as through contracts with publicly funded and private agencies.

The Halton Hills Speech Centre provides service in the Centre as well as other locations such as clients' homes, childcare centers, long term care facilities, hospitals, schools, etc. The Centre provides services in the Halton, Peel and Wellington regions and parts of GTA. The Halton Hills Speech Centre is currently contracted to provide services to the clients of the Community Care Access Centers of Mississauga-Halton, Central West and Waterloo-Wellington.

In addition, the Halton Hills Speech Centre has been contracted to provide services to several area hospitals including Halton Healthcare Services (Oakville, Milton and Georgetown Campuses); Mount Sinai Hospital, Providence Health Care, St. Joseph's Health Care Centre (Etobicoke), Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Trillium Health Centre, West Park Health Care Centre (Toronto) and William Osler Health Centre (Brampton and Etobicoke Campuses).

The Halton Hills Speech Centre currently supplies the Speech-Language Pathologist and Communicative Disorders Assistant for both the Burlington and Georgetown locations of the Halton Aphasia Centre. We are currently working with the Halton Aphasia Center to open another satellite location in Mississauga.

The Halton Hills Speech Centre is committed to providing public information on speech, language and swallowing topics. To this end, the Centre routinely sends brochures and pamphlets with an accompanying cover letter to physicians within Halton, Northwest Peel and Wellington regions. This is done in order to keep the physicians informed of current developments/therapies/research within the field of Speech-Language Pathology.

The Halton Hills Speech Centre also believes that parent education is key to delivery of service. We feel that the better informed parents can be regarding speech and language development disorders, the earlier problems will be identified and remediated. The Halton Hills Speech Centre implements this by offering public workshops which are held at the Centre or in local daycares.